Experiments in cardmaking

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Every month the IG Crafty Crew sets one easy and one hard just-for-fun challenge over on Instagram. I normally forget to join in, but I had no excuse for February as I was already doing the 30-day colouring challenge and this month’s easy challenge was to use the Copic colour of the month — ultraviolet. But this post is not about that image (which hasn’t made it onto a card yet). This post is about the card I created after being asked to provide the inspiration and theme for the March easy challenge.

And that’s the last day of the colouring challenge completed. Thirty days and I coloured something on every one – my stack of printed digi stamps is much smaller now, though of course my stack of coloured images is substantially larger 🙂

Another month, another challenge image from Gerda Steiner. And, thanks to the Daily Marker challenge, I have actually completed my entry in the first half of the month for a change. This time we had a cute pair of bunnies to work with.

Only two digistamps from the pile this time, though I do have excuses reasons for the others. I’ve had the elephant for a while, just not printed out, and that one is destined for a new baby card. The bunnies are for the February challenge from Gerda Steiner (yay! not left until the end of the month for once). And the space girl… well… I just couldn’t resist it 🙂

My eldest nephew has just turned twenty-one (!). So I had to make a card. A masculine card. While terminally uninspired… I was just going to keep it super simple: fussy cut numbers from something shiny and then do some paper layering. Then my other half said that he could 3D print some numbers for me.

I took a few days’ break from colouring digi stamps to finish the Autumn Scenes course from Sandy Allnock’s Art Classes; I started it last autumn but then got sidetracked after doing the first two scenes. I have a bunch of classes in my “I paid for this, I must do it” pile — mostly cardmaking technique classes, some Copic classes, and a drawing one (I love colouring stamps and digis, but it would be nice to have the confidence to create my own images) — and my aim is to actually finish a few of them this year.